Auxiliary electric heating system for internal combustion engine powered vehicles

Patent · Tue May 27 00:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5576210

Badali, E A

An internal combustion engine vehicle coolant flow system is described which includes an internal combustion engine, coolant circulator pump for pumping coolant heated by the engine from the engine, a heating radiator for transferring heat contained in the coolant to an enclosed area of the vehicle, electric blower means for increasing the rate of heat transfer by the radiator to the enclosed area and a first piping by which the coolant flow is established from the coolant circulator pump to the radiator and a second piping by which the coolant flow is established from the radiator to the engine. The improvement described here consists of an auxiliary heating system.

• Assignee: NOV; NOV-85-015053; EDB-86-127879
• Patent Number(s): US 4591691
• OSTI ID: 5576210
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
330100* -- Internal Combustion Engines
BLOWERS
CONTROL EQUIPMENT
COOLANTS
CURRENTS
ELECTRIC CURRENTS
ELECTRIC HEATING
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ENERGY TRANSFER
ENGINES
EQUIPMENT
FLOW REGULATORS
FLUID FLOW
HEAT ENGINES
HEAT EXCHANGERS
HEAT TRANSFER
HEATERS
HEATING
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
PIPES
PUMPING
PUMPS
RADIATORS
SWITCHES
THERMOMETERS
VALVES
VEHICLES